Dr. Yuval Weber, the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security (DMGS), had his review of The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti published in International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 6, 1 November 2018. International Affairs is one of the world’s leading journals of international relations. Renowned for its for its academically rigorous, practitioner-focused scholarship, over the years it has featured articles “from many of the [established and rising] leading international relations scholars,” among whom DMGS’s Dr. Yuval Weber is honored to have his work featured.
In his review, Dr. Weber praises Galeotti’s The Vory as “an in-depth look at the highly sophisticated political economy of horse-stealing in the nineteenth century, the author’s meetings with Chechen gangsters at the airport to take advantage of security checks, explanations of criminal slang and tattoos, and a cast of characters that includes people called Teapot, Basil the Chemist, Winnie Pooh and Stumpy Mishka, whose calling card was to arrange his victims on the ground in an arc so that a single axe swing could kill them all.”
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Biography
Yuval Weber, Ph.D., is the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security (DMGS). Prior to joining the faculty at DMGS, Dr. Weber taught at Harvard University, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department on Government and a Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. His work has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, International Studies Review, Survival, Cold War Studies, Orbis, and the Washington Post.
